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The Sandscribe Foundation equips aspiring filmmakers in Ethiopia through short-term trips and ongoing work at our Addis Ababa base. Local and international professionals donate their time to our students — many of whom have no financial means, only their passion to learn. Our goal is to foster a vibrant film community and promote positive values and collaboration that go hand in hand with artistic endeavor. Thanks for visiting.

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Our Summer Intensive 2017 with Sharing International produced three new short films. Today we look at Daandii Kaayyoo (Her Way to Destiny). Aspiring athlete KAYOO must take care of her siblings and sick father before and after school — a school she can only reach by running to it. When her responsibilities make her late to practice, her coach cuts her from a crucial sports competition. But the challenges Kayoo has faced have trained her, far more than her coach’s practice.…

Our Summer 2017 Workshop Intensive, led by Sharing International, produced three new student films, and an additional student film was completed in the fall. Sharing International returned this summer to teach a second intensive and oversee production of three new films, now in post-production. WATCH 2017 FILMS HERE: All films are written and directed by students/alumni of Sandscribe-Addis; except for Miliqqee, written and directed by students of Dhaba Wayessa’s From Script To Screen program in Washington DC. Gara Barii (Toward Dawn):…

The first scholarly book on Ethiopian Cinema was published in August 2018 on Michigan State University Press, edited by Aboneh Ashagrie, Alessandro Jedlowski, and Michael W. Thomas. It is a groundbreaking contribution to the growing academic fields of African Cinema and Africana Studies. Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the diversity and historical complexity of film from that region, including chapters on a variety of topics such…

In 2017, Sandscribe welcome Sharing International’s team of filmmakers and experts to Ethiopia for a two-week summer intensive. Chuck Pollak, Vic Costello, and Sarah Pollak Hoffman gave generously of their time and talent, and helped our students shoot three new films. In 2018, Sharing International returned for a second intensive. Their team mentored our students throughout the year, helping them develop ideas, write scripts, and prepare for the summer program! Because of their guidance, our students produce three additional films,…